Welcome to Pender Harbour
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The small and unique neighbourhoods of Madeira Park, Kleindale, Garden Bay and Irvine’s Landing are collectively known as Pender Harbour but technically Pender Harbour is the body of water that their shores share.

Visitors envy our lifestyle in Pender Harbour, and one of the main reasons people move here. On the other hand, locals grumble about “Pender Harbour Time” when trying to accomplish, well, just about anything.

If you’ve found yourself on the wrong side of the planet, you may have been looking for Australia’s Sunshine Coast (see Tourism Links in the box at your right).

 

what is a Pender Harbour lifestyle?

  • It’s casual ...unless you’re racing to Langdale to catch a ferry.
  • It’s laid-back ...except for the times you must deal with St. Mary’s Hospital, the Government Agent, SCRD, RCMP, Court, Canada Employment Agency, Social Assistance, Motor Vehicle Branch or some other agency and you have to drive to Sechelt or Wilson Creek (or Vancouver!)
  • It’s quiet ...except for the sounds of chainsaws on early weekend mornings after a windstorm and the occasional bouts of autumn gunfire.
  • It’s comfortable ...except when the power is out for... days.

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July 19, 1891: “Scarcely any place could be more naturally adapted for holidaying than this beautiful waterfront location which has the distinction of being the first landlocked harbour on the mainland north of Vancouver, deep enough for ocean vessels ... visitors dispersed to explore the different areas of the harbour, to visit the pretty lake at the eastward of the landing, to fish, bathe and enjoy themselves as their inclinations led.”  Vancouver News-Advertiser
 

Tourism Links

Sunshine Coast, Eh

Sunshine Coast Central

Texada Island

Powell River

Big Pacific

Vancouver

Vancouver Island

British Columbia

Sunshine Coast
... down under


Updated  29 Dec, 2009

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